to blow
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5.3
- verb
- /bloʊ/
- Informal
- I can't believe you just blew your cut of the money on a game for a console you don't even have.
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- Now you blew it, you blew it, you blew it.
- No one thing will ever blow a prospect.
- And if we blow it for them, it's our crime.
- Oh my God, Honestly, you blew it with Thomas and that's on you.
- There are plenty of opportunities to get clients without blowing money on ads.
- They'll panic, they'll blow it, they won't shoot when they have to shoot.
- Hillary's talent, by the way, blowing huge leads.
Examples
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You only get one chance to put your best foot forward; don't blow it with substandard work.
Academic text (2010) -
There are plenty of opportunities to get clients without blowing money on ads.
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How in holy hell do you spend or blow that much money?
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But what good was the money if he had trouble finding places to blow it?
Fiction book (1999) -
This is your last chance, so don't blow it.
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Oh, they blew their budget on the echo chamber.
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There's no reason to blow all your money on a hotel room.
Fiction book (1995) -
Don't just blow it all on makeup, Gary.
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You know, like I, I don't wanna blow all my money on some shitty business degree and then be miserable nine to five every day of my life at a computer typing away, getting fucking carpal tunnel.
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I can't believe you just blew your cut of the money on a game for a console you don't even have.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To use or spend something carelessly and without good reason
63
6.5
To use money, time, or chances in a foolish way
10
3.5
Spend money on things you do not need
7
6.5
To spend time or money in a wasteful way
7
6.0
Waste time or money on small unimportant things
2
6.9
To spend saved money quickly on things you do not need
1
8.6
To spend money quickly on things you do not need
1
8.1
To waste time, money, or chances by being careless
1
8.2
To waste time, money, or chances on things that do not matter
To spend money carelessly and waste it
To spend all your money at once
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
2
9.9
To leave a place quickly because you do not want to be there
- Offensive
Informal and rude way to use up all your energy or resources at once
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
174
7.0
To not attend or take part in something you should, often to do something else instead
- Informal
31
3.5
Do something active, like go for a run, to feel less angry or stressed
- Informal
29
7.9
A plan or action that fails suddenly and causes big problems for the person who planned it
13
2.7
To touch your lips with one hand then move that hand toward someone to show love
3
1.0
To make a small round pocket of air in soapy water by puffing with your mouth
- Informal
1
9.9
Make someone have bad back pain from lifting something heavy
Compounds
1
7.2
A large fly with a shiny blue-green body that lays eggs on dead animals and in wounds
- Specialized
A machine that makes hollow plastic items like bottles by heating plastic and using air to shape it
- Specialized
A machine that makes hollow plastic items like bottles by using air to push heated plastic into a mold
How Wasteful
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember blow meaning 'to waste money' is to think of money being carried away by the wind, since the word began with the idea 'to move air' from old English blāwan. So to 'blow' money is to let it go and disappear like a gust.